Sentence examples for a mere painter from inspiring English sources
She stood exposed as a mere painter.
Initially, the Spanish king, Philip IV, was aghast that such diplomacy be entrusted to a mere painter.
Reynolds was never a mere society painter or flatterer.
In the eyes of many critics he became a mere society painter.
His status as an illegitimate child led him to become an apprentice for the sculptor, goldsmith and painter Andrea del Verrocchio at a mere 14 years old.
Not bad for a painter who treats film-making as a mere sideline.
Rubens, the ultimate court painter, may have felt that a literary touch would elevate a mere landscape to a higher level.
October 6 2010 January 17 201111 Art historians, particularly those who specialize in the Dutch Renaissance, are no doubt elated to see Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) get his due — the painter falls chronologically between Van Eyck and Rubens, and is usually filed away as a mere link between giants.
The common question applied to painters such as Velázquez, say – how could they achieve such illusions with a mere brush and paint?
